Colorado Springs Park and Rec workers Rico Barela, left, and Dominic Archuleta install skate stops Thursday on the benches at Colorado Spring’s newest park, John Venezia Community Park, at the corner of Briargate Parkway and Union Blvd.. The grand opening of the ranch-themed park will be Saturday. The park will feature three large pavilions, three multi-use artificial turf fields, one in-line hockey rink, one basketball court, six tennis courts and four pickle ball courts.

Crews are putting the final touches for the opening this weekend of the first city park since 2005, the ranch-themed John Venezia Community Park in Briargate .

Before Saturday’s opening, crews will need to lay mulch, draw lines on game fields and sweep the area for trash, said Kyle Peterson, a seasonal worker with the Colorado Springs Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Services.

“It’s going to be nice having a new park up north,” he said.

More than a decade in the making, the John Venezia Community Park will be the first new park in Colorado Springs since America the Beautiful Park debuted 12 years ago, said Sarah Bryarly, a landscape architect with the Parks Department.

The park near Briargate Parkway and North Union Boulevard was suggested by a resident at a public meeting on the city’s capital improvement projects, Bryarly said.

It's been 20 years this month since three people -- a 9-year-old girl, her dad, and a man who worked for him -- disappeared. Westminster investigators believe the trio were murdered and their bodies hidden.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet introduced himself as a possible presidential candidate Thursday night at a small Iowa house party where he called for a new political culture in America, one that rejects the worst of the past decade and builds upon the nation's greatest success.